Don't feel too embarrassed - 5 years old and I was rocking out to Sean Cassidy's Da Doo Ron Ron . I was to be soon redeemed by my next album though; Donna Summer's Bad Girls , which brought down the house at Show and Tell.

Aw man. RIP Donna, Bad Girls was a hit in 2nd grade Show-and-Tell.

Hey we need a *bluesky channel.

In reply to this comment by dag:
There's a bit of history behind the current poll approval system. See here for background:
http://happy.videosift.com/talk/Wilhelm-The-New-Channe
l-in-town-and-a-new-invocation-too

I would say you have the right to create "a" channel, but not "any" channel - as your channel choice impacts on the community. For example, you may think that the "Green Donkey Dicks" channel is a fab idea, but the community would probably (maybe?) veto this choice.

In reply to this comment by BoneRemake:
I have the ability to make my own channel because I have earned the right to do so.

Why is it that every new channel gets a show and tell with a vote system.

Is it not my right to make whatever channel I want ?

if yes,

why this unwritten rule mentality, why give the ability, if it can be taken away ( I assume)

I have the ability to make my own channel because I have earned the right to do so.

Why is it that every new channel gets a show and tell with a vote system.

Is it not my right to make whatever channel I want ?

if yes,

why this unwritten rule mentality, why give the ability, if it can be taken away ( I assume)

I brought a robotically enhanced orthopedic external fixator for my show and tell.

I like that we can see a little of what is going on for people from there, and I think people should help. And I think we have a lot of people in this country who would gladly go there if they knew they were going to have a place to stay, food to eat, and transportation to get to where the work needed to be done....and some assurances they won't develop cancer or some other illness and drop dead in 5-10 years because they went there to help.

But as with all things, unless you know someone there who has their finger on the pulse of the situation and has contacts in the government...you will go there and be told "The best thing you can do right now is go home." unless you're famous......then they'll put you in front of some cameras and try to keep you happy so you don't go on talk shows and tell people how horribly bad it is there.

We have a lot of people who were just recently cut off from unemployment benefits (up to 2+ months ago) who would love to have a chance to go down there to help and draw a pay check to keep their house and such that they are in the process of losing. Small sidenote: What's funny is that the unemployment benefits got cut off....and now our unemployment percentages went from ~17% to ~10%...amazing they all found jobs...or stopped bothering to report their unemployment state since they aren't getting benefits from it....news hasn't investigated it.

These documentaries show there are things that need to be done, there's a real problem that having solid, useful information could help in applying an overwhelming workforce to the problem to overcome it. They just have to make sure that this overwhelming workforce isn't setting themselves up for death in 10 years because they weren't told that handling this stuff or being near it would result in cancer/internal organ failure/etc. And letting that kind of information out would make BP look bad, because it's not just dirty oil that kills all the wildlife..but it's dirty oil that kills all the wildlife and will continue to kill anything in the area for years to come.

I know at least 3 people and probably another half dozen who'd love to take their machinery down there to help out, as long as any damage caused to the machinery is going to be reimbursed (oily/sandy grit is not a good combination for moving parts) and they draw a paycheck to cover expenses of being there and their homes.

I wondered why they didn't dig a ditches in the beach lines, line them with plastic and slope them toward a pit or some kind of area where a pump can suck up the stuff making it to land to be processed there. Separate out the oil to a tanker, have 2-3 tankers making rounds to keep up with the oil and pump the water back out into the ocean. Sure some of the oil and stuff would be absorbed, but at least you're mitigating the absorption to an area near where your ditches are. You'd need some people on-site to make sure the ditches aren't getting plugged with debris and aren't eroding to the point of being useless. And then you'd probably have to dig new ditches with the tide. I can't tell what that raking and putting stuff in trashbags is doing to help the clean up in any significant way.


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[ ] = pump pit Pump Pit
And the editor basically butchered my little sketch, so there'd be some spacing between the | ditch lines and the [ ] pit would be larger to allow for more pumps to work on the same pit.

Something like that, you'd have to redig the | lines when the tide washes in and fills them...maybe use metal channels that are plastic lined that can be lifted out and move off so the tide doesn't fill them making them hard to lift or wash them away. And redig them once it recedes and put the metal channels back in place. And probably need something strong enough to hold the weight of a mini-excavator or back-hoe to clear the mouth of the | channels as stuff builds up in the mouth of them...so you can drive across the | channels to get to the problem areas.

Not sure how they could approach the swamp/marshland type areas, maybe focus their boats and booms more heavily in them to catch anything that the beach pumps don't draw in.....then setup fleets in the heart of the oil masses to suck up as much as they can before it gets close to shorelines. If the beach ditches worked out well, and the pumps were more than able to keep up with the natural water flow...they could be spread out some because they would pull the majority of the water toward the ditches.

Fine, I'll be that guy. Before I get into it, I'll have you all know that I was the first to hate on the ipad when it was announced.

That being said, having played with a couple, here's what I feel it would be good for:

• Games (if you're into that sort of thing)
• Reading (again, if you're into that sort of thing (tapping a word and going straight to the dictionary is huge, especially when you're reading grandiloquent authors))
• Sharing (show and tell w/pictures, videos, sharing documents, looking at maps, etc.)
• Things you do on your iphone that would be better with a larger screen (and you don't need in your pocket).
• Things you do on your laptop that don't involve much typing but do require a lot of trackpad input.
• Art projects, trust me, they'll be all over YT soon (the first thing I got an urge to do when I got one in my hands was draw a cock and hold it in front of my crotch, seriously, first thing (what that says about yrs. truly will hopefully be left to conjecture))

I'm not shelling out for one. I read, but I limit my game playing and I hate sharing. But if someone gave me one, I would happily make some good use (read: cock drawings) of it.

Here is a longer version of this fine example of civic behavior of legislators that could almost be mistaken for pre-school show-and-tell.

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:Pointless masturbation was your expression. I'm not against CGI in general, I'm just saying in this particular video, using CGI would make a completely unremarkable video, while using Lego blocks made a unique and awesome video.

Why? The effects of the video are cool enough regardless of being constructed of lego. If someone made this video with CG, with say like 200 hrs of hard work, you'd say it was worthless? WTF is wrong with you? Let see you make a video this cool with CG.

I can and have. I say that to me it doesn't matter if any records were broken in the production of the video, since that's not how I measure if the video is good or not. You keep hanging on to the tiny technicalities and thus miss the entire point of what I'm trying to say.

No, the whole point of what you're trying to say is that you "feel" it is important to make this with Lego. Well, guess what buddy, what you "feel" doesn't mean very much. You need to support it with reasoning. You'd make a terrible critic if all you can say is that you "feel" something is right.

For the last time. The car analogy was simply to illustrate how using a shortcut would invalidate the entire endeavor.

And for the last time, it was a shitty analogy. It doesn't work. I've repeatedly stated why your analogy doesn't work, and you've repeatedly failed to address my critism. If you're just going to conveniently ignore questions that you can't answer, what is the point of me talking to you? I might as well be talking to a stubborn 12 year old.

The sift may not care about regulation blocks, or other made up rules that you use to define athletics for yourself, but there are rules to this here siftage. While I don't consider myself a part of the Digg community, and thus don't care one bit what they vote up or down, I do consider myself myself to be a part of this community, and thus care about what gets sifted up or not.

Made up rules that I use to define athletics for myself? You mean the sport of sprinting as defined by the International Olympic Committee that the whole world recognizes? Hey, basketball must be some silly made up rules that I personal use to define athletics right?

And You must be deluded if you're comparing the sift to the IOC. This is worse than your Usain Bolt analogy. The sift is a tiny slice of the internet, and the members get to choose what videos get shown on the sift. It's a community forum where people gather to show and tell the cool things they found on the net. And just like any other public forum or gathering, there are rules, but that hardly makes it the same as the regulatory body of a sport. The authors of the videos themselves don't even have to know or care about the sift, and the sift in turn, have no power over them. You must be far deep in denial or really desperate if you're grasping at such tenous strings to mend your broken analogy.

1. My parents met at a Communist Party meeting in the 1950s.
2. I have never before felt compelled to write one of these things to strangers, but my love of the Sift has been growing by the week.
3. I am passionate about uncomfortable comedy.
4. My mum once accidentally ran over my leg in the family car when I was little. When I rushed to show and tell at school, no one believed me.
5. One of my major life goals is to become practical with my hands. I think my generation missed out on life skills, and I’m determined to learn them.
6. I miss my daughter every single day.
7. Most of my sifts never make it.
8. I have lived in Oz (my home country), France and Vietnam. While I can speak fluent French, I never took to Vietnamese.
9. I have ridden a motorbike every day since I lived in Vietnam, but I’m planning on trading down to a pushbike for exercise, sustainability and safety reasons. I’ve never had a serious accident, but I think it’s only a matter of time.
10. I’ve had a blessed life, filled with opportunity.
11. I would quite fancy a career in politics at some point, but I’ve had too much fun with too many people to survive the moral hypocrisy blowtorch of modern political life.
12. Alice Cooper ate at a restaurant I worked in once. He had sausages with maple syrup.
13. I consider myself a pragmatist.
14. I cannot cope with liars. They confuse me.
15. I’m not into guns, but I would like to shoot a feral pig one day to see what it feels like.
16. My personal hero is Paul Keating.
17. I once held open the door to Parliament House for Gough Whitlam – he didn’t thank me.
18. I’m not scared of heights, but I am in my dreams.
19. My favourite place in the world is Stradbroke Island
20. I was passing through the Philippines during an attempted military coup in the 1980s. There were pre-teen kids my age carrying automatic guns.
21. I’m not into computer games, but I’m very competitive and get short term addictions to internet games. I’m currently into Blast Billiards
22. I regularly play lawn bowls
23. I would love to build a sustainable house one day, like those ‘Earth Ships’ designed by the Garbage Warrior.
24. I’m neither religious nor superstitious
25. This list took me my entire lunch time to write, and it's so long since this blog was posted few will ever read it.

>> ^dannym3141:
^ Fuck off. Absolute trash.


Who pissed in your cheerios?

How big of a douchebag do you have to be to go into the comment page of a clip from a show you don't like, downvote the clip, downvote a comment praising the show, then post a comment of your own swearing at a person who likes the show and telling them their opinion is wrong?

As big a douchbag as dannym3141, apparently.

Racist? The guy was a white entertainer trying to break into a field predominantly characterized by black entertainers, and doing it on the most superficial level possible. Of course he would be criticized for being out of touch with the roots of the music, and the worst thing he could do in response would be to say "Hey, I'm cool - I have a black friend *that I brought with me for show and tell*!" Doesn't mean that he or anyone else was racist, just sort of pathetic in that adorable early 90's way.

I was given this as a gift, by my sisters husband back when he was still the older boyfriend that my parents didn't like, and I played it for my 4th grade class during show and tell... those bastards jeered, and I think I like it even more today.